[Tetraman]

If you are holding a meting to talk about the situation, THAT is the best thing to do - talk, and listen.

Let everyone who wishes to speak be heard. If there is a feeling of discontent within the seniors, they need to have a time to speak their minds and explain why they want to go in such a specific direction.

In my senior year, myself and other seniors were having big issues with the direction of robot designs the lead mentor insisted we take - and not giving any weight to the student ideas. Together, we seniors took a stand but didn't make any kind of attack. Instead of being seperate and commandeering the team, our student president of the team asked for a special meeting time for the entire team and the mentors - and in a forum discussion openly expressed our concerns that our designs weren't being considered or simply accepted as possibilities. After some discussion and debate, enlightening discussion too, we reached a consensus that us kids would rather have a robot that sucks and we designed than one that rocks and was pieced together by an adult. So the lead mentor put aside his eagerness to have a good robot. (we ended up being 6th seed at a regional that year, our team's highest seed ever and since. Pretty good for a 'lousy' robot.)

Things you should note when going about this, is to remind everyone about the priorities of FIRST. If you have a FIRST team, everyone should hold some FIRST values - and its easy to lose sight. You could find some of the answers for your team in them.